New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-04-13


| In his recent message to the Legislature on
special legislation Governor Hill said that he had
already signed seventy-two special acts passed al
this session. But he must draw the line at a bill
| to prevent the sale Of liquor to lunatics, SO ne
vetoed the one to pohbt the sale of liquor IN the
neighborhoOd Of the Willard Insane Asylum Now
he has followed this up with the veto OF the Dill
to prevent the sale of liquor near his own once
in the State Capitol In this lie is at least con-
sistent. Last year he vetoed similar bill on tie
ground that it would prevent him from using
liquor in tie Executive Mansion. 1t would be
pity to put the Governor TO any inconvenience In
this matter 1t would look much better for him.
however, if he would he honest about it and not
saw that he vetoed the bill because il WIS special
| legislation. Such excuse is worse tlan none'
because it assumes that the people ae all fools.
English Tories Of the stalwart type console
themselves with the a ,ction that Mr. Gladstones
| Hyde Park demonstration was attended mainly by
| Socialists London mut be in imminent danger
of a revolut on if 10000 Socialists can be got
together any spring afternoon with the aid OF
Green rosettes and q few bands Of music
THE TRIBUNE contained yesterday very circum-
stantial and detailed account Of sad state OF things
on board the cruiser Atlanta, now lying at the
BROOKLYN Navy Yard. 1t appears that nearly e'ers
on
10 rights. Tho story was so extraordinary ,n Sd
sent va rSpSTst IVf that there was only Of
truth I'm t. and that that copper rvcts had poen
found not r0ng The s1OP q to %s mp ss
Journalistic lying-fThc Y. Y. Evening Post
Lying, was it Please give bin Of particu-
lars The info nation about the Aantas guns
was furnished at the Navy Yard by officers OF the
service. who had no intere in disappearing
| fha offip al IN WI
porter was sent may have been responsible for
the blunders. Only one grain of truth, you
cav. Why YOUR own informant admitted nearly
everything that was charged. He did not deny
that tie Bureau of Ordnance had been tinkerins
for months with the tracks, carriages and guns
nor that three kinds Of rivcts had been used;
nor that there had been considerable chiselling OF
the steel plates nor that the guns would have 10
he worked by hand instead Of by small engines !;
nor that there WIS still defect in the machinery
for opcrating the guns. lie did say that The
entire battery was in complete working order
Well if e. at be true the guns can be Immediately
tested. The officers who cautiously supplied The
TRIprSr with its information affirm that the car
ria ,es do not fit the tracks and that the guns can
not be properly moved. levelled and fired. IL WIN
be an easy matter 10 prove on the next tiiai "TRIP
whether there has been any Eing-on'Slde the
accustomed columns of "Ihe Evening POST
After q toleraby long interval of freedom from
accident the casualties which were formerly 80
numerous and frequent in the Aqucduct have peeh
resumed. II there were proper regard for the
youe Of human life safe apparatus would be pro-
yided. The contractors ought to be held to
strict accountability for their NEGLECT.
Yes. eternal mendacity seems TO be the price oil